Around Christmas I asked my husband to pop on over to my blog and spotlight some of his favorite things I’ve ever gifted him. With Father’s Day coming up we’re doing it again, but this time we’re focusing on some cool small businesses. Check…
After the snow thawed this spring, I took a look at our yard and winced. I am lucky enough to live on a beautifully landscaped street, but ours needed serious help. With the rain finally letting up and National Garden Week’s arrival, I started…
Tyler and I don’t get out enough for date nights. I think sometimes we are both so tired from the chaos of the kids, work, and general life responsibilities that we fall into staying at home. Lately we’ve expressed to each other that we…
Our family recently had the opportunity to preview the new Explore & More Museum at Buffalo’s Canalside where we dug deeper into the history of Buffalo and used our creative minds to build and play! From a 2-story waterfall to an “ice” rink you…
I hope every enjoyed their long weekend! We’ve been working like crazy around the house redoing a few rooms and since the thrift shops were all 1/2 off for the holiday, I spent quite a bit of time pounding the pavement to find the…
A couple of years ago I started seeing beauty vloggers post videos of themselves brushing their teeth with charcoal. When they rinsed their mouths after brushing, they claimed that their teeth were starting to look brighter. This seemed like a total game changer for…
Another Mother’s Day for the books, but my first as a mother of two! I started out the holiday with a Muffins with Mom breakfast at Fox’s school. I’m so grateful for the teachers and staff that so thoughtfully put this together for all…
When I first moved in with my husband, we had almost nothing to our names. He was a touring musician, constantly on the road and not in need of a home, and I had moved cross country with two cats and whatever else would…
There’s nothing like the smell of a clean house. Few things bring on the nostalgia as much as a fresh lemon scent. It’s ingrained in my brain from Sunday house cleanings as a kid. One of the brands that shaped that yummy scent of…
Since the very first time we put Fox in the bathtub, he screamed at the top of his lungs the second water touched his face and hair. I could tell that he was genuinely terrified of water. Fox is fearless in every sense of…
For four years I walked hand-in-hand with jealousy. It’s something I consciously struggled with, constantly talking myself off the ledge after letting myself know I wasn’t being rational. The notion still lived in my body deep down. It all stemmed from feeling like a…
As I mentioned before in my list of baby girl names we would have picked, Charlie was always going to be a Charlie. Initially we had decided it would be his middle name after a contentious battle over whether or not we would roll…
When I was a kid, my family made a big deal of Easter egg hunts. We didn’t head out to public places for them, they were always done in the house with the help of a lot of crafty clues that lead me to…
On our last big family trip we visited Iceland and noticed something about each of the residences we stayed at: they had tiny little trash cans for the entire household. I’m embarrassed to say that we had roughly 4 times the amount of trash…
Charlie was going to be called “Charlie” regardless of gender. He is named after my grandfather, Charles. Originally, we decided it would be the first name Charlie for a girl and a middle name for a boy, but a month before he was born…